She seemed distracted and looked out of frame then added, “Actually my schedule just cleared up.” She really looked at me and now she was worried,...“What’s wrong?”I had been pinching my bottom lip and licked that spot before answering, “I’m miserable. I messed things up. If I hadn’t gotten pregnant then maybe I wouldn’t be so lonely. I wouldn’t be so confused.”“Don’t blame yourself. And don’t do anything drastic about the baby,” Sue yelled.“What? I’d never do anything drastic. I already love. .”“Have a tamale,” Carlita said. “Life is better...”He eyed the green packet offered to him.“It’s a Guatemalan tamale. Banana leaf wrapper.”“Won’t poison you,” Brindy helped. “We don’t offer ‘em to just anybody...”I need to tell you that Dan Gleason is one HELL of a barbecue guy. He said ‘pitmaster’ but he doesn’t have a pit. He distilled the essence of open-pit barbecue to a stainless steel enclosure with an industrial temperature control system. I looked at the thing.“Work in progress,” he. ”“Good for you,” she continued walking.“Okay, that’s an interesting way to play it. But I guess some girls like to pretend to be bitches. Makes it more fun.”“Ek-fucking-scuse me?”“Oh don’t pretend to be shocked.”“Yeah you can go fuck yourself now, bye-bye,” she waved one finger at him. The middle one.He grabbed her and shoved her up against the wall, “Bitch, your a fucking beta sow, you can’t talk to ME like that!”Under any normal circumstance, any normal woman of her stature would be terrified. Janet let out a long sigh as she entered the house to be greeted by thesight of five teenaged girls sprawled out on the sofas, with two large,empty pizza boxes and several empty cans of Coke littering her coffeetable. However, she couldn't help but smile at the happy, contented lookon her daughter's face, as well as the ones on Ellie's and Jade's."You really can never have too many friends," Janet whispered to herselfbefore striding into the living room with a stern look on herimmaculately.